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>Josef Gulka wrote: > What of the unnameable vocabulary and architechtonic domains >of pure sounds... Music. To name/express that which 'cannot be named' >with objects and images that can be named, even if the composite sum >remains unnameable, seems no more, and sometimes a bit less capable >of such expressions than pure sounds which have no such grounded ties. It's true. The other afternoon while in my car, I turned the radio to what revealed itself to be a string quartet readingof Faure's Requiem, in progress. As I drove along, the sound filling the car, it was easy to have the sense of the car filling, too, with light - - and of becoming weightless, almost levitating (please, no jokes about LA drivers). There was a joy tempered with the sadness that the song would have to end - that I would have to return to life as I lived it before the song. Yet, of course, the song would be lost on all the people not attracted to such music, in somewhat the same way that a visual artwork speaks or does not speak to someone, conveys or does not convey its mystical message. jmichael %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%